Personnel and Budget

DC Staff on 11/30/03:

• There are 25,169 regular employees and 343 OPS staff that make up the department's total staff.
• The average employee is 41 years old and has been with the agency for eight years.
• Gender: 40% of corrections staff are female and 60% are male.

Employee Retention Rates

	1 Year	2 Year	3 Year
CO Series	68%	55%	46%
CPO Series	78%	67%	61%
Other	67%	51%	42%

Years of Service with State of Florida

Less than one year	12.3%
1 to less than 5 years	18.8%
5 to less than 10 years	26.3%
10 to less than 20 years	32.0%
20 to less than 30 years	9.4%
30 years or more	1.2%

Employee Separations for past 12 months

Voluntary	1,961
Involuntary	680
Retired	662
Death	41
Other Separations	43
Total Separations for Previous 12 months	3,387

Inmate Per Diem

It costs $47.39 a day ($17,297 a year) to care for and supervise an inmate in a major Florida prison. It costs $27.35 a day to house an inmate in a work release center and $55.32 per day to house an inmate in a private prison.

FY 2002-03 Inmate Cost Per Day:
$47.39 or $17,297 per year
(Major Institutions)